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The Abbey Road photo miracle, Glen Hansard and TV we’d pay to watch
Episode 948
The news slapped on the conversational barbecue and served with a side of old hokum. This week’s mixed grill includes …
… our favourite story in the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bowie, the Cure, Neil Young and the golden age of the video shoot
Episode 947
Tim Pope caught the video wave in 1981 and made hundreds of promotional clips, often three or four a week, edited at night and on-air days later. You…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Pauline Black of the Selecter, the girl who invented the Rude Girl
Episode 946
Pauline Black was seen singing Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell songs in Coventry folk clubs and recruited by a local reggae band. Then converted to s…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Tony Fletcher - teenage label boss! – remembers the Jam, the Tube and the ‘80s pop explosion
Episode 945
Tony Fletcher launched Jamming! when he was 13, wrote for the Face at 16, ran a label with Paul Weller at 17 and a year later was presenting the Tube…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Is AI wrecking rock history? – plus festivals in heatwaves and Kate Bush dancing
Episode 944
Testing the temperature of this week’s news to see what trips the fire-alarm, which includes …
… does having a Number One still matter?
… Pauline Bla…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Richman, on-the-road songs and the best-known solo ever recorded
Episode 943
This week’s news in a conversational cocktail-shaker and served with ice and a little paper parasol. Those Happy Hour highlights include …
… six musi…
2 months ago
Georgie Fame, Ben Sidran and the golden age of ‘60s Soho
Episode 942
Ben Sidran was in a teenage band with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs, a session pianist with the Stones in 1969 and carved a brilliant career as a jazz …
2 months ago
Steve Hackett remembers batwings, blues clubs and Genesis on £15 a week
Episode 941
Steve Hackett’s seven years in Genesis get re-explored when he tours in October, along with ‘solo gems’ from the records he’s made since, the latest …
2 months, 1 week ago
Mari Wilson, our favourite girl about town, takes Neasden to Chelsea
Episode 940
Mari Wilson has drunk deep of all that London nightlife has to offer, from a London Transport social club in Wembley to a posh venue in Chelsea via t…
2 months, 1 week ago
All music is dance music! – and the best stage name ever
Episode 939
Another over-heated week put through the conversational air-conditioner, which involves …
… the man who got rich writing words that could never be su…
2 months, 1 week ago